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Quote from: Emma on December 14, 2013, 09:20:58 am

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
-Socrates

Well said, Socrates - you wise soul!  
Thanks for sharing these quotes, Emma!

Hola my dearest Propstoart. It is so good to see you here. I hope all's well with you and you are dandy.

See, I've always found Socrates to be slightly naughty as well because of the comments he had made re: marriage but if you look into his life, you'll see he had reasons for those comments. It turns out, his wife would send him off to do some groceries, but Socrates - the philosopher that he was, would often find himself in a group of people telling them to ask the bigger questions in life and then he'd go on to lecture about those questions and their possible answers. And all this would make him forget why he was out on the road in the first place. So as a result, he would always find his wife standing at the door with a broomstick giving him very cold and long looks, because sure enough, once again, Socrates had forgotten to do the groceries. But in retrospect, Socrates after all, wasn't he marrying kind and neither him nor his wife, who btw thought he was quite incompetent when it came to household stuff, realized that. It makes me sad because all my life I have looked for a guy like him and all I can find is one hard materialist after another, alas. I would have worshiped Socrates had he been my husband! heck, he didn't have to even marry me. lol.